The Data-Lab Project’s Leader, Damilola Adegoke who is also an Alumnus of the ALC led the ALC team at the event.

At the event, the ALC Data Lab Project was part of a Big Data Pitched Ideas cluster which won the 2016 King’s Big Data Pitched Ideas Award.

This pitch titled “A Visual Analytics System for Monitoring, Prediction and Control of Cattle Zoonotic Disease in Developing Countries” Other members of the cluster included representatives from other faculties such as the informatics and Medical Sciences.

African Leadership Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kiven James Kewir as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ALC/King's College London, and as Research Leader at ALC in Nairobi. Dr. Kiven James Kewir is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Conflict Prevention and Regional Integration at the Centre for Research in Political and Strategic Studies in the University of Yaoundé II Soa, Cameroon, and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the University of Buea, Cameroon. He has been a member of the ALC Adjunct Faculty since 2014, and these appointments further institutionalise his relationship with ALC and King’s College London. Under the new ALC governance structure with Shuvai Busuman Nyoni as Director, Dr Kewir will be ALC’s Research Leader for the 2016-17 academic year and will be based at the ALC in Nairobi.

African Leadership Centre is pleased to announce the first graduate from its PhD programme at King’s College London. On 1st September 2016, Barney Walsh officially completed the ALC PhD Leadership Studies with reference to Security and Development, under supervision of Professor Funmi Olonisakin. Barney is the first PhD graduate at King’s College London to have completed his PhD solely within the African Leadership Centre under our senior academics.

Barney’s PhD thesis is titled “Exploiter or Unwitting accomplice? China’s Engagement in the East African Community and Uganda’s Utilisation of the Regional Security Complex.” It explores the increasing presence of China in East Africa and the impact therein on the regional security environment. It focusses specifically on security challenges related to terrorism and the oil sector, and highlights how President Museveni of Uganda has displayed noticeable and unique signs of agency against China and his East African partners.